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Friday, August 26, 2005

Spicy Soup and More from Small Batch Baking

Chipotle Chicken and Tortilla soup(CL) filled our bowls tonight for dinner. It's a very fast dish as the simmer time is only 5 minutes after you brown the diced chicken. Instead of throwing all the tortilla chips in, I kept some aside and added them as we ate for additional crunchy texture. They also helped to thicken it up some. This is a pretty spicy soup as the heat comes from chipotle chile powder.

The Small Batch Baking cookbook was calling to me today, so I opened it up and I happened to have all the ingredients that the recipe shown called for. Orange Tea Cakes with Honey Orange Glaze(SBB) was fun to make. They are tender, melt in your mouth, one bite (okay maybe two) cakes that have a sweet sticky glaze. They are baked in a mini muffin pan and when they come out of the oven you poke tiny holes in the top so the glaze you pour on can seep inside and run down the sides. This makes them very moist. I added a little orange zest to up the flavor some and would do so again. The recipe makes 8 so it's just the right amount for us.